The Exit
65 Music Festival was Sept. 25, the Homebrew attendance was light, the
music was great.We need that NY State
bill passed to legalize serving Homebrew at Charity events where people pay to
get in.

Hopshire
made a Harvest Ale with wet hops contributed by home hop farmers.This year, Dave King (2) took about 2.5 lb.
of his wet hops up.The release was Oct.
1, along with an IPA celebration, with 6 of them from 4 breweries, including
our Harvest Ale, all very good.

Sudsy
Brews & Fiery Foods was held Oct. 8th at the Center for Technology and Innovation,
on Water St., Binghamton.We had a light
turn out, but it was a great time for those who poured and attended.Most of our local brewers were there, with
lots of tasty brews.

Dave King (2) is doing an on-air interview with
Bob Joseph of WNBF,
1290 AM, Nov. 4th, at 10:30 am, on Craft Beer in Central NY. This is the 2nd one, the 1st
was Oct. 14th, same subject. I’ll
be pitching the Learn to Homebrew Day, as well as the local beer scene.

Learn
to Homebrew Day is scheduled for Nov. 5th.We’re doing a demo brew and class at Galaxy
Brewing.Send your friends who just
started or are thinking about getting into Homebrewing.Chris Hritcko, Bernie, and your fearless
leader will be working with Seth to spread the word.We’ll start about noon, drop in if you’re in
the area.

Knickerbocker
Battle of the Brews is scheduled for Nov. 12, in Albany at the Pump
Station, so let me know if you’d like to Judge or Steward, maybe we can ride up
together.

The Seneca Lodge Brewfest is set
for Dec. 2 & 3, $40 for Fri. night, $50 for Sat.At least Matt, Joan and I have attended
before, and had great times.Join us
this year, Fri. with Matt, Sat. with Joan and Dave.

We plan to do a Beer Tour,
probably early to mid Jan. should be good.Coachmaster
would cost around $35/ea., depending upon bus size and how full it is.

Dave King (2) gave his
talk on “Brewing Water Adjustment,”
emphasizing that if you know your water profile, it’s easy to determine what
minerals and acids to add, in order to fine tune your mash pH and beer
flavor.5 member water analyzes were
presented, and the comparisons and conclusions were interesting.If you’d like a
softcopy of the presentation, let Dave know.

Kevin at the Endicott
Water Plant apparently knows water chemistry, I need to contact him.Also, Jim Burt heard that the Binghamton
Country Club uses a lot of water, so they occasionally need to supplement with
JC water, thus the big change in composition that we found.

Dave King (2) – Rye Porter, I was getting into the “Brewing Water Adjustment,” talk, didn’t
hear much about my Porter, I added some
Amoretti vanilla extract, but not
enough to really show.

There might have been other beers, but I was too busy to take note. We
need a secretary, to record these minutes, and make them more flowery,
interested in the job? I'll double the current salary! Anyway, bring your Homebrews next time (with
recipes, or send them), and we’ll get into them.See you in November, on the 9th.It’ll also be a Founders Tap Take-Over,
don’t miss it.